The Italian Baroque painter Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was an animal painter, landscape painter, portrait painter, history painter, graphic artist, printmaker, draughtsman, engraver and etcher. At the beginning of the 17th century as the elder son of the couple Giulia Varese and Gio. Francesco Castiglione, he was convinced that he descended from Greek ancestors and therefore called himself Grechetto (little Greek). Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione had a sister and a brother 11 years younger called Salvatore Castiglione, who also became a painter.
According to later research, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione probably entered the studio of the Genoese painter Giovanni Battista Paggi at a very young age and became his student. Sinibaldo Scorza and Bernardo Strozzi were also among his teachers. Moreover, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione took early inspiration from the Flemish painters Peter Paul Rubens, who stayed in Genoa at the beginning of the 17th century, and Anthony van Dyck, who arrived there in 1621. When Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was about 20 years old, his idols Paggi and Scorza died and he let their style live on in his works.
In Rome, where he travelled with his younger brother Salvatore, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione joined the Accademia di San Luca. It had existed since the 16th century and all the famous painters of that time belonged to it. From then on, Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin, Pietro Testa, Gian Lorenzo Bernini as well as the old masters Tizian and Raffael were among the models of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. While Castiglione stayed in other cities like Naples, he worked as a painter and engraver. Contrary to tradition, he did not work out his pictures in preliminary studies. The finished works bear witness to great technical brilliance. Among his contemporaries, however, he was known not only for his skill but also for his lack of control. He is said to have threatened a fellow artist who made fun of his working methods with a pistol.
At the end of the 1630s Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione returned to his hometown Genoa, where he married the Genoese Maddalena Cotuzia in the early 40s. The couple had a son, named after his grandfather Giovanni Francesco, who, like his father, took up the profession of painter. At the end of the 1640s, one year after the birth of his daughter Livia Maria, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione returned to Rome with his family. He liked to paint pictures of animals and landscapes. A popular motif was Noah with his ark and animals. Castiglione is also credited with having invented the monotype, a mixture of drawing and prints. This art fell into oblivion, however, before 250 years later artists such as Bernardo Strozzi0, Bernardo Strozzi1 or Bernardo Strozzi2 were revived. According to historical court records, it is believed that Castiglione had to leave Rome because he tried to throw his sister off a roof and was charged with attempted murder.
In the last years of his life Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione worked as court painter for the Ducal family of Mantua. Because of the successful light and shadow effects in his paintings he was called the second Rembrandt. From this time it is said that Castiglione, in anger, destroyed one of his paintings with a knife in front of the assembled court. The works of art still preserved by Castiglione can be admired today in Rome, Genoa, Naples, Venice, Florence and Mantua. They also enrich private and public art collections in Munich, Dresden, Vienna, Paris, Windsor, Houston, Ottawa and New York. © Meisterdrucke
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The Italian Baroque painter Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was an animal painter, landscape painter, portrait painter, history painter, graphic artist, printmaker, draughtsman, engraver and etcher. At the beginning of the 17th century as the elder son of the couple Giulia Varese and Gio. Francesco Castiglione, he was convinced that he descended from Greek ancestors and therefore called himself Grechetto (little Greek). Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione had a sister and a brother 11 years younger called Salvatore Castiglione, who also became a painter.
According to later research, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione probably entered the studio of the Genoese painter Giovanni Battista Paggi at a very young age and became his student. Sinibaldo Scorza and Bernardo Strozzi were also among his teachers. Moreover, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione took early inspiration from the Flemish painters Peter Paul Rubens, who stayed in Genoa at the beginning of the 17th century, and Anthony van Dyck, who arrived there in 1621. When Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was about 20 years old, his idols Paggi and Scorza died and he let their style live on in his works.
In Rome, where he travelled with his younger brother Salvatore, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione joined the Accademia di San Luca. It had existed since the 16th century and all the famous painters of that time belonged to it. From then on, Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin, Pietro Testa, Gian Lorenzo Bernini as well as the old masters Tizian and Raffael were among the models of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. While Castiglione stayed in other cities like Naples, he worked as a painter and engraver. Contrary to tradition, he did not work out his pictures in preliminary studies. The finished works bear witness to great technical brilliance. Among his contemporaries, however, he was known not only for his skill but also for his lack of control. He is said to have threatened a fellow artist who made fun of his working methods with a pistol.
At the end of the 1630s Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione returned to his hometown Genoa, where he married the Genoese Maddalena Cotuzia in the early 40s. The couple had a son, named after his grandfather Giovanni Francesco, who, like his father, took up the profession of painter. At the end of the 1640s, one year after the birth of his daughter Livia Maria, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione returned to Rome with his family. He liked to paint pictures of animals and landscapes. A popular motif was Noah with his ark and animals. Castiglione is also credited with having invented the monotype, a mixture of drawing and prints. This art fell into oblivion, however, before 250 years later artists such as Bernardo Strozzi0, Bernardo Strozzi1 or Bernardo Strozzi2 were revived. According to historical court records, it is believed that Castiglione had to leave Rome because he tried to throw his sister off a roof and was charged with attempted murder.
In the last years of his life Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione worked as court painter for the Ducal family of Mantua. Because of the successful light and shadow effects in his paintings he was called the second Rembrandt. From this time it is said that Castiglione, in anger, destroyed one of his paintings with a knife in front of the assembled court. The works of art still preserved by Castiglione can be admired today in Rome, Genoa, Naples, Venice, Florence and Mantua. They also enrich private and public art collections in Munich, Dresden, Vienna, Paris, Windsor, Houston, Ottawa and New York. © Meisterdrucke
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.jpg "The Fable of Diogenes, looking with a lantern for a good man by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Bearded Man Wearing a Turban, 1647-51 by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Circe Changing the Companions of Ulysses into Boars by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Large Studies of Heads in Oriental Headdress by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Tobit burying the Dead, ca. 1647-51. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Head of an old bearded man facing right, from the series of Small Heads in Orien..., ca. 1645-1650. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "The Creation of Adam, c. 1642 by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "The Angel Departing from the Family of Tobit, c.1655 by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "The Immaculate Conception with Saints Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua, 1650 by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Journey of the Family of Abraham by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Fete of Pan, 1648. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Diogenes searching for a honest man, ca. 1645-47. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Man in profile facing right, wearing a fur hat, from series of Small Heads in Or..., ca. 1645-1650. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Bearded Old Man with His Head Leaning Forward, Wearing a Skull Cap, Facing Right by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Head of a man wearing a feathered cap possibly Bernini, possibly a self portrait..., ca. 1645-1650. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Nativity with God the Father and angels, ca. 1647-50. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Allegory in Honour of the Ruling Couple of Mantua by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Melancholia by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Hagar and Ishmael in the wilderness by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Entrance of animals in Noahs ark by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Man holding a scroll in front of his face, from the series of Small Heads in Orien..., ca. 1645-50. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Two shepherds, a donkey and other animals in a landscape, ca. 1638-1640. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Crucifixion by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "A Pagan Sacrifice, c.1645-50 by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Tobit Burying the Dead, c.1647-51 by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Young man wearing a plumed turban, facing right, from the series of Small Heads ..., ca. 1645-1650. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Jacobs Return, ca 1647-1651 by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Bacchanal before an altar to the gods, ca. 1645. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Noah and the animals entering the ark, 1650-55. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "The Oath of Abrahams Servant, c. 1650-1659. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Finding the bodies of Saints Peter and Paul, ca. 1647-51. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Tobit Burying the Dead, 1640s. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Noah letting the animals into the ark, ca. 1630. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Circe with the companions of Ulysses changed into animals, 1650-51. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Circe Changing Ulysses Men to Beasts, early 1650s by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "The Finding of Moses by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Man in profile facing right, wearing a fur hat, from series of Small Heads in Or..., ca. 1645-1650. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "The Creation, Mid of 17th cen. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Circe by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, etched by Antonio Travi by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Man in profile facing right, wearing a fur hat, from series of Small Heads in Orie..., ca. 1645-50. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Head of an old man facing right, from the series of Large Oriental Heads, ca. 1645-1650. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Young man with a trumpet facing left, from the series of Small Heads in Oriental..., ca. 1645-1650. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
 - (MeisterDrucke-38272).jpg "The Nativity, c.1645 (etching) by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Noah and the Animals Entering the Ark, 1650-1655. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Young man facing three quaters right wearing a fur headdress with a plume, jewel ..., ca. 1645-1650. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Man holding a scroll in front of his face, from the series of Small Heads in Ori..., ca. 1645-1650. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "The angel awakening Joseph to the presence of the Virgin and Child, ca. 1645-49. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "The Holy Family on their flight into Egypt, ca. 1647. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Tobit Burying the Dead, c. 1650 by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Rachel Concealing Labans Idols or Laban Searching for Idols, c.1630-40 by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Young herdsman on horseback, 1638. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Tobit burying the dead, ca. 1647-51. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Head of an old man with a turban facing left, from the series of Small Heads in ..., ca. 1645-1650. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Young man with his head lowered, wearing a turban, facing left, from the series o..., ca. 1645-1650. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Young man looking down to right, from the series of Small Heads in Oriental Headdr..., ca. 1645-50. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "The Virgin and Child, God the father upper right, angels at left, ca. 1647-50. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "The Holy Family on their flight into Egypt, ca. 1647. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Saint Francis in Ecstasy, ca. 1650. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "A satyr reclining at the foot of a staute of Priapus, goats at the right, ca. 1645-48. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Head of an old man facing left, from the series of Large Oriental Heads, ca. 1645-50. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "God the Father observing the Virgin and Child, angels to the right, ca. 1645-47. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Laban searching for idols among Jacobs possessions, ca. 1635-40. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "A satyr reclining at the foot of a staute of Priapus, goats at the right, ca. 1645-48. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Head of a bearded man with a turban facing right, from the series of Small Heads..., ca. 1645-1650. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Circe Changing Ulysses Men, c1650 by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "The Large Heads of Men in Oriental Headdress: A Man Nearly in Profile and Turned to Left. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Study of Figures in Costume, c1635-1670 by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saints John and Mary Magdalene and God the Father, c.1651 by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Two shepherds, a donkey and other animals in a landscape, ca. 1638-1640. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "The Expulsion of Hagar, c.1640 (red-brown, blue-green, and white oil paint and brush on tan paper) by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")
.jpg "Pyrrha, c1635-1670 by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione")